r/Hermes

Hi everyone! As the post title says, I’m offering public praise for Hermes. I had promised him I’d sing his praises in the town square as part of a petition, and he came through for me. Not in the way I expected (he’s still who he is) but definitely in exactly the way I didn’t realize I needed.

I generally keep my petitions private, but in case it’s of relevance it sat at the intersection of travel and communication. And since I live in an area without a physical town square, I figured it makes sense to exult him in a virtual one.

So thank you, Lord Hermes! Thank you for your aid, your playfulness, and your wisdom in knowing what we may need, even if we don’t see it clearly yet. Thank you for being a deity that meets us where we are, and welcomes us into deeper relationship. Thank you for the many lessons we learn through building our relationship and devotional practice to you. My gratitude and appreciation for you are more than I can adequately express, and I am so grateful for all the ways you show up in my life.

Praise to Lord Hermes!

I consider myself an agnostic atheist, but I have been drawn to paganism, and I have been wanting to open myself back up to being more spiritual! I became interested in Hermes (as a character and deity) over a year ago!

So, in my dream, I was somewhere with a bunch of clutter/antiques, and I spotted a small/mediumish Hermes statue in a Greek style (head facing the side as well), but with his Roman name, “Mercury,” etched into the bottom of the statue. I was with an NPC friend (idek, just some guy who was my friend in the dream), and I was like, “Hey, look, it's Hermes! Well, his Roman name is Mercury; that's why it's etched there.” And my friend was like, “What are the odds you found one in all this clutter? Maybe it's a sign from him.” Then the Hermes statue moves its head and looks at me. I look back, and I’m like. “Am I seeing things?” and then he looks back again. I don't remember how it led to this, but then the real Hermes shows up (it's hard to describe what he looked like in the dream; he was blurry, but I could see his face and smile, kinda resembled mine; perhaps he manifests as the person he is reaching out to sometimes, I have no idea). I also recall him having his flying shoes and flying/floating in the dream. He said he was giving me 4 challenges/trials to face, and then he would be my deity/grant me 4 favors. I cannot recall the first three, but the last one was the scariest. So he said, for this one, you cannot look at the entity's face, no matter how drawn you are to do so. So my friend and I look down at our feet, and we see the entity's feet walk to my friend and get real close to him; my friend is scared shitless and tempted to look, but resists. Then the entity walks to me and gets close; I can feel its breath, and it stares at me, but I resist the urge to look up and run. Then the entity disappears, and we look up and suddenly another entity appears (a woman-shaped one, idk), and we quickly look down, and she goes away. That's when Hermes comes out and is like, “You did it!” and we are like, “PHEW!” And for some reason in the dream I have a little child brother, and Hermes is like, “Well, to get your favors I have to steal your little brother and starts dragging him, flying away, and me and my friend are reaching out to him and are like, “NOOOO!!” Then Hermes sets him back down and is like, “I was just joking! Gotcha! Anywho, you earned the favors!” So then I ask for the creatures I can't look at the faces of to never see them again, and that one couldn't be made, and then I was like, “Ok, make me a god,” and he was like, “Ok!” And I started flying into the sky and was like, “WOOOOOOOOO!” And Hermes said to the gods, “Listen, I made the guy a god because why not,” or something like that. It was a fun and funny dream!

So, recently I've been having Sir Hermes pop up in my head a lot, and I then just got into Epic the musical. I love both songs Hermes sings, and I love the separate character they have for him, and I like the God he is now. I am unsure if he is reaching out, because I have started Tarot yes, but that was because I felt the urge and I got it with Lady Hekate spectating almost, nudging me here or there but leaving it to my decision. I also have always wanted to travel the world, and i pride myself in my ability to swipe a pencil case or backpack from my friends without them noticing. I just don't know if what i feel towards him is self inflicted or not. I saw some Loki posts and found it strange he continued popping up, then It changed to thoughts of Hermes, and I want to be sure I'm not being stupid or something, because when I think of him, I feel like the way you dream of having a safe dad almost. Is that wrong? Like am I tweaking out or is this actually a sign that he is fine with me and whatever, or is it my Epic The Musical craze clouding my judgement?

G’day everyone!

This is going to sound silly as fuck to the majority of you, I’m sure, but humour me; I’m mentally ill and traumatised.

I’ve been drawn to Hermes for a long while, now. I once even asked him—and a small number of other deities—for help with something major in my life about a year ago or so, and either he and the other gods delivered, or I just got really lucky outside of divine intervention. Honestly I’m 100% an atheist, I’m not very good at having an open mind to all of this stuff, but I try because I’m drawn to this path for whatever reason. Maybe I just don’t want to be alone, since the life I live offers little for me in the way of connection (disability, mental health, and so on).

Where things get tricky is that, for reasons I cannot pinpoint exactly, I feel like Hermes wouldn’t like me. We have a deal in common, like stealing from our siblings and feigning innocence (I used to bribe my sibling with the shit I stole from them — “Hey, I’ll give this thing I stole from you back, but only if you do this with me”, lmfao), superficial shit like me being a Wednesday kiddo born in the year of the snake, growing up a thief, never being one capable of being stuffed in boxes or following the rules too much, and even generally being the court jester of my family. I thought we might get along quite well, but I have this stupid feeling deep down that he really would not like me very much.

Anyone have any advice for how I can get around this feeling? Thanks!

Do you guys know whether tarot is reasonable to use if reaching out to Hermes? And if so, how would the tarot fit into the prayer?

Thank you

So people on tumblr write fanfic about Hermes that are includes 18+ ones too hows do you guys feel about it n how’s Hermes feel about or think about it im curious because lowkey some of them are wow 😭like dammmm

Do you guys think it would be respectful and okay to get the caduceus as a small tattoo?